Facebook immediately demanded that Ceglia hand over more computers and thumb drives so they could prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the documents were forged

Ceglia fled to Ireland

The judge in the case demanded that Ceglia hand over the additional computers and thumb drives

Ceglia's (third) lawyer said he had relayed the order to Ceglia and that Ceglia had refused to comply

Ceglia's lawyer quit the case, becoming the third Ceglia lawyer to do so. (And it's worth noting here that Ceglia's third lawyer was not a prestigious firm like Ceglia's second lawyer but a sole practitioner in San Diego who recently represented a few California citizens arguing for pot legalization.)

Borland took stock photographs of, for example, a kid eating a hot dog, and made it look like the kid was instead giving someone a blow job. Borland says he did this to prove how easy it was to forge porn. But the kid's parents freaked, and a judge slapped Borland with a $300,000 fine.

Given this blow to Borland's reputation, as well as his geographic distance from both New York and California (Lakewood, Ohio), it does not seem far-fetched to conclude that Borland was the only lawyer left in America that Ceglia could find to represent him.

The fact that the Ceglia case is still ongoing at all, by the way, is an outrageous waste of Facebook's money and time. Based on the evidence Facebook's forensic investigators turned up, Ceglia should be being investigated for criminal fraud and attempted extortion, and we suspect that the threat of such an investigation is why he has now taken up residence in Ireland.

At some point soon, hopefully, Facebook will be able to get the whole case dismissed. But, for now, it appears the farce will continue for a while.